Tia Mowry is opening up about what post-divorce motherhood seems like for her.
The mother of two — who shares son Cree, 13, and daughter Cairo, 6, with ex-husband Cory Hardrict — spoke to PEOPLE on the premiere of her new WE television sequence Tia Mowry: My Subsequent Act about some of the poignant moments from the primary episode.
Whereas reflecting on the candy mother-daughter second, by which Cairo offers Mowry, 46, a “fear doll” to assist make her mother’s “worries go away,” the actress advised PEOPLE, “The factor is as a mom, you form of attempt to determine in the event you ought to enable them to see your feelings, your ups and your downs.”
“And I’ve made the selection to maneuver from an genuine place,” she stated on the Hollywood premiere on Friday, Oct. 4. “And permit [Cairo] to see that there are days when Mommy is unhappy. And that is okay.”
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The Twitches actress additionally echoed an concept she expressed within the episode, stating that it’s as if the 6-year-old “feels my vitality.”
“However I feel what’s simply so stunning about kids is simply because they’re younger, it does not essentially imply that they do not have a voice,” she defined. “It does not essentially imply that they do not know what is going on on or they do not know learn how to really feel.”
Mowry additionally stated she has given each Cairo and Cree “that area to precise and simply to be genuine.”
“And it isn’t about overlaying up, you understand, issues,” she added. “And I feel while you transfer in authenticity, there’s therapeutic, there’s development — and I’ve allowed my kids to do this as properly.”
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Tia Mowry: My Subsequent Act follows the titular actress as she “embarks on a fearless and fierce journey of self-discovery” following her divorce from Hardrict, 44, which was finalized in April 2023.
“My subsequent act is all about development,” she stated on the present’s premiere. “All about simply persevering with to encourage. All about being in alignment with my ideas and my behaviors. All about me. Shifting ahead, not wanting behind. Simply full of affection and compassion towards myself.”
An official description of the present reads: “Tia was all the time a part of a duo, first as a twin sister, then as a spouse … now she’s on her personal for the primary time in her life. The battle is actual as Tia takes on courting once more whereas juggling her appearing profession, companies, and motherhood. Tia navigates her new regular, seems for love, and finds her happiness alongside the way in which along with her village of larger-than-life family and friends!”
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Shortly after her cut up from Hardrict — which she first introduced on social media in October 2022 — Mowry opened as much as PEOPLE about life as a single father or mother.
“I really feel like, particularly as a mother sporting so many alternative hats, I am all the time in survival mode,” she advised PEOPLE in November 2022.
“I am all the time ensuring everyone is okay, everyone’s alive, everyone’s wholesome, everyone’s fed,” she added on the time. “And ensuring everyone’s superb, they haven’t any holes of their socks, et cetera.”
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As for her personal well-being, she defined, “It is about studying learn how to bear in mind and current with myself, and tapping in and ensuring I too am taken care of. [Because] how are you going to deal with different folks in case your cup is not stuffed?”
Tia Mowry: My Subsequent Act premiered on WE television on Oct. 4.
